The letter discussed secret peace talks going on with Britain. Sumner, you must have met Hess when you were in Europe last year." Welles said that he had. I was excited for I thought that now I was going to hear the inexplicable explained."What's he like ? However, Beaverbrook, who like Hamilton was a prominent appeaser before the war, let him know that he was not in control of the situation.After the war the Duke of Hamilton told his son that he was forced to take the blame for Hess arriving in Scotland in order to protect people who were more powerful than him. Three political parties, in and out of bed with each other like drunken intellectuals, fifteen warring cabinet ministers, and sixty million separate egos. Simply say I was out of my mind." Of course, that is what both Hitler and Churchill did later on. However, a large percentage of the German population still feared Hitler and in the election Hindenburg had a comfortable majority. You may, however, want to give it a chance if you admire Frayn and/or the fine acting on display.

Is this the reason why Hess decided to come to Britain on 10th May, 1941? Beaverbrook added that he could prove that Sir Archibald Sinclair lied when he claimed in the House of Commons that Hamilton had never met Rudolf Hess. Sir Archibald Sinclair also issued a statement in the House of Commons that the Duke of Hamilton had never met Rudolf Hess.However, recently released documents show that this was not all it seemed. The British were very active in Lisbon, so I think there might have been some peace offer from London." It is impossible to know if Misch is right about this as the official British documents relating to it are still classified.On 22nd May 1940 some 250 German tanks were advancing along the French coast towards Dunkirk, threatening to seal off the British escape route. However, all documents relating to the weekend of 20/22 April, 1941 at the Madrid Embassy are being held back and will not be released until 2017.Karl Haushofer was arrested and interrogated by the Allies in October 1945. The British government has never released the documents that include details of these interviews. Kretschmann is based on Marcus Wolf, head of the East German Intelligence Service who described with regret his role in bringing down Willy Brandt as "equivalent to kicking a football into our own goal." There are super performances from the rest of the grey suited cast, notable David Ryall's wily old campaigner "Uncle Herbert".

Democracy has few seats left for its run at the National but there are day seats available from 10am on the day and returns on sale from 6pm. However I think Democracy will have a theatre life way beyond the National with probably a West End transfer, as Copenhagen did (Editor's Note: Per item in New Noteworthy it is slated to cross the ocean to Broadway). The following day he persuaded von Hindenburg to issue the Reichstag Fire Decree, which suspended most civil liberties. Clearly, they could not say where this information came from.Later that year Hamilton sued Pierre van Paassen, who in his book, That Day Alone, described Hamilton as a "British Fascist" who had plotted with Hess. In fact, Hamilton lived close to where Hess landed (Dungavel House). In fact, all Hamilton got was $1,300. In fact, he added, Hess had refused to negotiate with Churchill. Hess escaped and sought the help of Karl Haushofer. It is true Hamilton had a meeting with Churchill and Stewart Menzies two days after Hess arrived in Scotland. Traditionally, a set of balls consists of a red, a spot white, which has two or more black spots for identification, and a plain white, although the spot white may be replaced with a solid yellow ball.

However, it is possible that Hess was playing a new secret role in Hitler's government.Rochus Misch, Hitler's bodyguard, How to Hold a Billiard Cue claims that in May 1941 he was at Berchtesgaden with Hitler and Hess. While in Landsberg he helped Hitler write My Struggle (Mein Kampf). After the death of President Hindenburg on August 2, 1934, Hitler merged the offices of party leader, head of state and chief of government in one, taking the title of Führer und Reichskanzler. Brandt's closest personal assistant, a man born in East Germany, Günter Guillaume (Conleth Hill), and privy to everything that Brandt does, is exposed as a spy for the Communist state. Here Brandt's description of the difference between communism and capitalism. When he spoke to industrialists, Hitler concentrated on his plans to destroy communism and to reduce the power of the trade union movement. Hitler was not appointed chancellor as the result of an electoral victory with a popular mandate, but instead as the result of a constitutionally questionable deal among a small group of conservative German politicians who had given up on parliamentary rule.